FAUG - Field Automated Users Group

Mission StatementContributing to an effective partnership between the Oregon Department of Corrections and the county community corrections agencies by providing a statewide information system and reliably addressing the changing needs of field system users

FSN - Fee System Network

Mission StatementThe mission of the Fee Supervision Network (FSN) is to incorporate statewide policies and procedures that enable financial accountability while ensuring fiscal responsibility and offender accountability and developing and implementing standardized procedures to document, maintain, and transfer accurate records of offender costs of supervision.

By maintaining consistency within the DOC Fee System, we bring the capability to track offender fiscal conditions throughout the state. We also create offender accounts that are easily transferred to another county requiring minimal or no adjustment by the receiving county.

FSN accomplishes this mission by increasing our knowledge of and implementing the policies and procedures created, sharing information and expertise, and promoting statewide support and staff participation.

Quarterly FSN meetings allow for analysis and solution of problems or issues concerning Fee System accounts, policies and procedures. Attendance by all Fee System users is encouraged. Minutes are taken and distributed to all Fee System users and representatives.

FVSN - Family Violence Supervision Network

Mission StatementThe mission of the Family Violence Supervision Network (FVSN) is as an intra-state collaboration of parole and probation officers working together with community partners to ensure victim and community safety by developing best practices for the supervision of domestic violence offenders.

SOSN - Sex Offender Supervision Network

Share resources and expertise; train and enhance skill development; and

Provide educated and informed recommendations and input to the department, to local community leaders and the Legislature on policy issues related to community supervision of sex offenders and their treatment.

History of the Network: A unique overlay to Oregons sex offender supervision strategy is a line-level group of parole/probation officers empowered to significantly guide the direction of sex offender supervision for the state: the Sex Offender Supervision Network. The Network was founded on the belief that empowerment and participatory management will result in the most effective strategies to manage this and other offender groups.

The Network was conceived at a conference in 1990 when three parole/probation officers organized a meeting of POs from all over the state who supervised sex offenders. The participants in this first meeting recognized the value in their increased communication, sharing information and networking with fellow POs who supervised this difficult caseload

Where the Network is now: The Network continues to direct standards for the management of sex offenders in Oregon. Discussions of supervision and sanctioning are initiated by those officers and other professionals working directly with the offenders in the community. Model programs throughout the state have been identified with many of these programs or program components replicated in other jurisdictions. Support and consultation routinely occurs in addressing both local community issues in program development and issues related to individual sex offender cases. The Network is critical to effective management of sex offenders in Oregon. Through the networks original strategies and vision, Oregon has become a national example in the area of community supervision of this difficult group of offenders.

The Sex Offender Supervision Network as a Resource Provides:

Development of intensive supervision and specialized caseloads;

Training and expertise in identification, development and referral for sex offender evaluation and treatment resources:

Effective sex offender treatment programs will significantly slow the cycle of sex abuse. These programs should include supervision by parole and probation officers who have received training in the dynamics of the sex offender and in the techniques that are effective with this population. Sex offender treatment, in the prison and the community, should be provided by licensed sex offender treatment professionals.

Competent and professional execution of state statutes related to:

Sex offender registration

Sex offender community notification

Public education: professional and informed, the Network addresses public concerns about risk, risk management, contract prohibitions, notification and registration.

Guidance for the sex offender in risk management, treatment issues and early detection of indicators of reoffense.

SOON - Statewide Office Operations Network

Promote uniformity, standardization and data integrity in community corrections field office operations and automated offender tracking;

Define on-going support training needs;

Recommend community corrections field office policy and procedure changes; and

Address other corrections-related support issues.

SOON accomplishes this mission by increasing knowledge and awareness of the most up-to-date methods, sharing resource information and expertise, and promoting statewide support staff participation.

SOON meetings provide a forum for analysis of problems and formulation of solutions to issues that have a significant impact on field operations and the integrity of the Corrections Information System (CIS) database. Attendance is open to all community corrections staff and minutes are taken at each meeting with distribution to all field support staff, institution records offices, the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, Offender Information and Sentence Computation Unit, Information Systems and Services Unit and all county directors (Oregon Association of Community Corrections Directors).

Brief History: SOON was formed following the implementation of the Department of Corrections´ Offender Profile System in November 1989. This group gives clerical staff a means of communicating their needs to the information systems unit staff responsible for maintaining existing software and implementing new software.